Lexical Summary gir: chalk, lime Original Word: גִּרTransliteration: gir Phonetic Spelling: (gheer) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: chalk, lime Meaning: chalk, lime Strong's Concordance chalkstone Perhaps from kuwr; lime (from being burned in a kiln) -- chalk(-stone). see HEBREW kuwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H1615. gir גִּר noun [masculine] chalk, lime (perhaps Aramaic loan-word compare Frä9; Aramaic (also Biblical Aramaic) גִּיר ; Arabic is loan-word Fräl.c.) — גִר כְּאַבְנֵי מִזְבֵּחַ Isaiah 27:9. |
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